On Mon, 2010-05-31 at 22:50 -0700, Dylan McCall wrote: > > I found some advice to use ibus instead, but so far I've not been > able to > > get ibus to do what I need without having it interfere with my > normal > > typing. I just need a quick way to type common symbols found in > English text > > (e.g. an em-dash). > > Well, as a workaround, I suggest you stop torturing yourself with > memorized character codes and configure a compose key! In Gnome, that > can be turned on with Keyboard Preferences / the Configuration button > in the Layout section. Unfold the Compose Key section, and pick one. I > use Right Alt. (Sorry, I'm not in front of a Gnome desktop right now > so I can't be any clearer). > > Now you can input a special character by pressing the compose key, > followed by two characters that you think would combine to form it. > For example, Compose + o + c creates ©. > Your em-dash is compose + minus + minus. > > Basically anything you could possibly want is there, including opening > / closing quotation marks, fractions, some math symbols, super / > subscripts, and accented characters. The compose key is awesome, and I use it frequently. But it does not enable anything you could possibly want. It might contain everything you need if you only need Latin languages. Unicode is really, really big. /me wishes the compose key table were (easily) user-configurable. -- Shaun _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
